Picture it… It’s 1967, an Edmonton Public Library children’s membership costs five cents and an adult one is only a quarter. The downtown library has an artwork rental service, a smoking room and a petting zoo. Futuristic gadgets like a Xerox copier, four-track tape recorder, Kodak camera and label maker boost the feeling of innovation…

The transformation of the Stanley A. Milner Library is hard to miss. Sitting on the south end of Churchill Square, the Edmonton Public Library’s central branch looks dramatically different a mere four months in to what will be a three-year revitalization. In April, a group of new Women Building Futures students were lucky enough to…